UCM CDR’s, just in case I forget again; Microsoft Excel =(A1 / 86400) + 25569 Format the result cell for date/time, the result will be in GMT time (A1 is the cell with the epoch number). For other time zones: =((A1 +/- time zone adjustment) / 86400) + 25569. Formula: =(A1/86400)+25569 It gives you GMT […]Continue reading…

I was just wondering if I could ‘cat’ something to clipboard from the terminal on the Mac, and you can! i.e. Open a terminal and do: $ cat ~/Desktop/ded.html | pbcopy Now that file is in the clipboard. To put it somewhere else, that is, to paste it, do: $ pbpaste > ~/Documents/ded.html Now you […]Continue reading…

Hey all, I wanted to write up an experience I had with a really cool OSX application I stumbled upon looking for a Mac equivocal of the famous sysinternals windows app bginfo Googling around I found a variety of applications claiming to be able to add info to the background similarly to bginfo, but after […]Continue reading…

As a MacBook user a lot of the time you’re at the mercy of using RDP to connect through to Windows servers for day-to-day tasks, occasionally a server will die that you’re working on and you’ll need to reboot it remotely, from a Windows VM you can instruct the server to reboot using the following […]Continue reading…

Following on a request from one of our clients I was looking into configuring ACL filtering, on ASA 9.2(3). There are quite a lot of the guides out there, but they are missing a few important bits to make it work correctly, through trial and error with a friend of mine we found the following […]Continue reading…

TMSPE Installation issues I’ve recently been reconfiguring Cisco TMS (Telepresence Management Suite) on a client server that lost all their data, following installing Microsoft SQL Express and then installing TMS I ran into a big problem installing the Cisco TMSPE (Provisioning Engine) connecting through to the SQL server, even though the TMS install had worked […]Continue reading…

Well, I’ve finished reading the Harry Potter series. I really REALLY enjoyed. I had a few minor complains about book seven; I though more detail could have been added around the final two Horcrux’s and how quickly the were destroyed, but overall, amazing. I always feel really sad about finishing a series of books knowing […]Continue reading…